128 A TOUR WOUND NORTH WALES* 



At fome diftance the road appears like a 

 white line along the fide of the rock, which 

 towards the fea is in many places fo nearly 

 perpendicular, that a ftone may be thrown 

 from thence into it without touching below, 

 a height of almoft a hundred and forty feet* 

 The pafs would,* were it not for the wall, 

 be truly terrible; and even yet, to thofe 

 who can make frights to mock themfelvesj 

 the amazingly lofty abrupt precipice of rock t 

 towering overhead with the fragments and 

 ruins, that have for ages been falling down 

 from it, and feem ready to roll over one, do 

 prefent a fcene of horror. 



Before this pafs was formed, the ufual 

 mode of going from Conwy to Bangor was 

 either in boats, or to wait the departure of 

 the tide and proceed along the fands, at low 

 water, a mode frequently attended with 

 danger, owing to the tide's fometimes form- 

 ing hollows, of the depth of which, when 



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